When I went to Bouchercon, the annual mystery convention, last September, I was expecting to meet mystery writers and fans from around the globe. Even though it was held in Anchorage, Alaska, the gathering drew a nice multitude of crime fiction devotees. I met writers from New York and London, fans from North Carolina, Hawaii and everywhere in between. And then there was Pamela Mains. Armed with business cards and fliers adorned with a slinky babe holding a gun and a pink box, Pamela was promoting her new bookstore-cum-bakery called "Cheesecake and Crime." She’d come to Bouchercon to let authors know there would soon be a new venue ... (more...)